Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.
The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.